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Koxinga (Darrin Skerrett) records his fourth win in six starts at the Wingatui meeting on November 3.Tayler Strong / Stuff Koxinga, the winner of four races for Gore owner-trainer Wayne Humphries ...
Claims that Taiwanese security officials tailed a mainland Chinese party throughout a religious tour of the island have raised concerns about the obstruction of people-to-people exchanges and the ...
A statute of Zheng Chenggong, or Koxinga, in the Taiwan Hall in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. ST PHOTO: YEW LUN TIAN ...
Some 20 years later, in 1683, the Qing ended up defeating Koxinga’s short-lived kingdom and extended their control over Taiwan after breaking the last Ming resistance.
Back when Taiwan was known as Formosa and functioned as a base for the Dutch East India Trading Company, Chinese forces during the Ming Dynasty under the command of the warlord Koxinga desired to ...
This public lecture is going to analyse how Koxinga's reputation has been reinterpreted or reimagined in contemporary Taiwan, mainland China and Japan.
The Dutch swiftly extended their rule across much of the island – including by evicting Spanish forces from the north – until being defeated themselves in 1662 by Koxinga, a piratical ...
Taiwan’s fourth city has plenty to satisfy the inquisitive visitor, especially in the walkable district of Anping, which is brimming with culture.
The Dutch eventually drove out the Spanish in 1642, but were themselves ousted in 1662 by the Ming loyalist Koxinga, who fled to Taiwan after the Ming dynasty was conquered by the Manchurians. In 1683 ...
Koxinga was brutal, and he especially loathed the superior and haughty Dutch who had encamped on the island redoubt he dreamed of using for his own purposes.
Koxinga Shrine, Tainan Tainan was the capital of Taiwan until the late 19th century, so undoubtedly there’s a lot of history in this former first city.
Fu Chao-ching, who has been a student of Taiwan architectural history for more than three decades, notes that the period of the Kingdom of Tungning (1661–1683), founded by Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga), a ...